ABC News

A man in Texas has been arrested and charged with supporting ISIS, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Kaan Sercan Damlarkaya, an 18-year-old U.S. citizen from Houston, was charged with unlawfully distributing explosives information and attempting to provide material support to ISIS in a criminal

Cinemas are set to open in Saudi Arabia in March 2018 for the first time since they were banned in in the early 1980s, according to the Saudi minister of culture. "It's a beautiful day in Saudi Arabia!" tweeted Haifaa al-Mansour the first female Saudi director of a feature film, the acclaimed

The International Olympic Committee has barred Russia from the Winter Olympics this February over systemic doping, but will allow some individual Russian athletes to take part under a neutral Olympic flag. The IOC's executive committee announced in a statement that it was barring Russia's national

Special counsel Robert Mueller has issued a subpoena to Germany’s largest bank, in a possible sign the investigation into Russian election interference may be expanding toward the finances of President Donald Trump or other individuals under scrutiny by the special counsel. Mueller sought records from

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told U.S. diplomats in Brussels today that the U.S. State Department has yet to achieve foreign policy “wins” since he took over nearly a year ago. "While we don't have any wins on the board yet, I can tell you we're in a much better position to advance

The massive tax overhaul passed by the Senate early Saturday morning will, if enacted into law, affect millions of Americans in different ways. By and large, the most costly provision continues to be reducing the corporate tax rate to 20 percent. The Joint Committee on Taxation gives that a $1.4 trillion

Everyone needs to look smart, which on this trip translates to jackets and ties in Myanmar's 90-degree heat. As we embarked on our journey with Francis to Myanmar and Bangladesh on Sunday, our passports were taken off of us at the boarding gate, and we were told that we wouldn't be getting them

The proposed Senate Republican tax bill would increase the nation's deficit by more than $1.4 trillion over the next decade and disproportionately hit lower-income taxpayers, according to a new Congressional Budget Office analysis. The CBO, a nonpartisan agency charged with projecting the effects

With lawmakers in Washington facing a deluge of agenda items to address before their December holiday recess, President Trump kicked off the week by pitching a contest to determine "the most dishonest, corrupt and/or distorted" news network. The president's suggestion came via Twitter

Hawaii is reinstating a statewide nuclear attack warning signal in December to prepare for a potential attack from North Korea. The alarm, which has not been used since the Cold War, will be reinstated on Dec. 1 as part of a ballistic missile preparedness program, according to the Hawaii Emergency Management

President Donald Trump and the father of one of the UCLA basketball players caught shoplifting in China have become engaged in a so-called war of words. Last week LiAngelo Ball and two other UCLA players, Cody Riley and Jaden Hill, were detained in Shanghai after an incident that involved stealing a

A female radio host claims Al Franken, now Minnesota's junior Democratic senator, groped her while she was sleeping aboard a military plane on her way home from a USO tour over a decade ago. "I felt disgusting and violated," Leeann Tweeden wrote in a post this morning on KABC's website

A young Australian diplomat fell to his death from a New York City building early Wednesday, police said, reportedly as he played a trust game on a ledge. Julian Simpson, 30, was on the seventh floor of a Lower East Side building with his wife and others when he fell, landing on a second-floor terrace

Some renters of homes owned by the “billion-dollar landlords” highlighted in an ABC News investigation might be surprised to learn that they, as taxpayers, have a stake in their corporate landlord’s business. The first deal went to Invitation Homes, founded by financier Stephen Schwarzman, a onetime

The World Anti-Doping Agency, the top international body overseeing anti-drug efforts in sports, has ruled that Russia remains noncompliant with its code, harming the country’s chances of competing in the Winter Olympics this February in South Korea. At a meeting in South Korea’s capital on Thursday

The Grenfell Tower fire killed a total of 71 people, London’s police said on Thursday after recovering and identifying all those believed to have died in the blaze. In June, London’s Metropolitan Police estimated that about 80 people had died in the fire, which started on June 14 just before 1 a.m.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who sustained multiple rib fractures and lung injuries during an altercation with his neighbor, is returning to Washington D.C. Monday for the first votes of the week, a source close to Paul told ABC.The alleged assailant – 59-year-old Rene Boucher – was arrested by Kentucky State

President Donald Trump today announced he's nominating Alex Azar to be Department of Health and Human Services secretary, replacing Tom Price. Azar is a former executive for pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and worked as a deputy secretary at HHS under President George W. Bush. After graduating

Researchers at Cambridge University have trained eight female Welsh mountain sheep to recognize four celebrities and distinguish them from unfamiliar people. “Face recognition is a sophisticated process, but they’ve got big brains, they see other sheep, and they use this processing to recognize one

Five months after President Trump announced he was tearing up President Obama's "Cuba deal," his administration is finally implementing those changes. Starting Thursday, U.S. tourists and companies will no longer be able to do business with a long list of entities that allegedly have ties